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Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
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#102On a Windows PC, what (free, open source) drawing program would I use to create illustrations using these pieces?
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#103I'm using this on my landing page. The illustrations are beautiful and the way Pablo Stanley organizes all the assets in Sketch is amazing. Also note, Humaaans is under CC 4.0
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#104where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us…
The average color of all human skin mixed together would probably be brown. Picking an average of everything should be highly uncontroversial.
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#105Nice! This came at just the right time for me too. I find the general attitude in this comment section curious, though; lots of people are arguing about the skin tone choice which is notably brown. Yet I feel that if it were lighter in shade, there would be much less grumbling and criticism about not including every single possible body shape?
The more often I see this discussion flare up in comment sections, the more I appreciate the wisdom behind the "Ikea Person" in their assembly instructions.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, there's a simple explanation. Humaaans uses an artistic style of solid patches of color against a white background. Very light skin tones work terribly in this style because they disappear into the background.
If true that would be hilarious, but I don't see how we could ever know for sure. If the real reason were unsavory, there would be an overwhelming social bias not to reveal it; and as a result even a true, positive answer wouldn't help.
I made a white humaaan for you. It has some readability problems. :)
https://danielvf-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/whumaaan.pn...
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#107Favourited. Really nice work and impressive landing page. Would love to have an online tool for this also, as others have said. The style of work really reminds me of undraw [1] [1] https://undraw.co
My only issue with unDraw (and Unsplash) is that the license isn't conclusively a free software license due to the "don't scrape our site and run a competing service" clause(s). I'd be more comfortable with it if they more clearly separated the license into one for the assets themselves (preferably something like CC0 or an ISC-like license) v. one for the site itself (which would be the right place for a "no scraping" rule).
The impact's minimal, but it still rubs me a smidge wrongly.
Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
#108Nice! This came at just the right time for me too. I find the general attitude in this comment section curious, though; lots of people are arguing about the skin tone choice which is notably brown. Yet I feel that if it were lighter in shade, there would be much less grumbling and criticism about not including every single possible body shape?
The more often I see this discussion flare up in comment sections, the more I appreciate the wisdom behind the "Ikea Person" in their assembly instructions.
I searched for the background so I could read up on that. Didn't find it, but did find this...which is also interesting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/17/resea...
Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
#109where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us…
They are svgs without gradients. It's pretty easy to change the skintones, even with a text editor.
Re: Humaaans: Mix-and-match illustrations of people with a design library
#110where are the white humans? and the yellow humans? and the jet black humans? I feel like the 1 skin tone is meant to be provocative, possibly be a deliberate troll, maybe start a discussion. does the author wish to weigh in? as a white human I feel excluded. maybe I'm attaching too much importance to skin tone as a part of identity. I think partly that's in our brains, partly it's emphasised by the media to divide us…
The average color of all human skin mixed together would probably be brown. Picking an average of everything should be highly uncontroversial.
Nobody is average.
OK, that's too short to really mean anything, so I'll elaborate. If you take the average characteristics of everyone in the world (wealth, skin tone, intelligence, BMI, height, gender, etc.), and turned that into a single person, then you would have a new, unique person. In other words, it would not "represent" anyone, and so should definitely be seen as controversial. There are a myriad of engineering stories about this discovery (one size doesn't fit all).
If anything, I would have loved to see more diversity, or at the very least a prominent message on how to achieve it. Color might be the easiest change to make, but I didn't see any old or fat people on there, or how to make those variations.
I like the overall idea of the project, though.